you are all lucky as far as internet speed goe's here in the uk we have the British telecom it siad i get upto 10 mb but it best is 1.8 m.b and its drops down to 500 bytes sometimes

If you can, and I know their cable doesn't reach all parts of the UK, go to Virgin. I'm on 20Mb and that's what I get, testing to UK servers. Last time I tested to SF got >18Mb.

Agreed. I pay for a 10Mb service from Virgin and I get 9.5Mb on average. While not the cheapest out there, I like the reliability of the service. The only problem with it having all coming down the same cable, if it does go down I lose broadband, TV and phone. Some places now offer a 50Mb service and I also know in Bournemouth a company has installed a fibre network in the existing sewers, and offer a 100Mb service (Think it's called Cable City, but don't quote me on that).

you are all lucky as far as internet speed goe's here in the uk we have the British telecom it siad i get upto 10 mb but it best is 1.8 m.b and its drops down to 500 bytes sometimes

If you can, and I know their cable doesn't reach all parts of the UK, go to Virgin. I'm on 20Mb and that's what I get, testing to UK servers. Last time I tested to SF got >18Mb.

Agreed. I pay for a 10Mb service from Virgin and I get 9.5Mb on average. While not the cheapest out there, I like the reliability of the service. The only problem with it having all coming down the same cable, if it does go down I lose broadband, TV and phone. Some places now offer a 50Mb service and I also know in Bournemouth a company has installed a fibre network in the existing sewers, and offer a 100Mb service (Think it's called Cable City, but don't quote me on that).

Giz.

Another option, is zen internet zen.co.uk they also do fibre upto 40Gb, you do need BT phone.

My ISP is housed next door, about 50 meters, so my theoretical 10Mbit DownLoad
and 768Kbit Upload, is also the real speed. Telephone, also is VOIP
And no limit on Down/UpLoads.
Also an ADSL 2+ signal, for Digital TV, 16Mbit/sec.